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Does the “Show on Desktop” option in context menu actually have a function?

Never mind. I misunderstood. This shows how important a good translation is.

I translated "Show on Desktop" as "Auf dem Desktop anzeigen". But in reality, it creates a shortcut on the desktop. 

Thanks, I've figured that out myself in the meantime. I find the ‘Show on Desktop’ option a bit unclear. The word 'show' suggests it will display something, but actually, it creates a shortcut on the desktop instead

A context menu was forgotten here for the symbols.

"Pick custom tile image..." => "Benutzerdefiniertes Kachelbild auswählen..."

"Colour"

The texts could also be improved a little here.




   - "Menu background transparency level"="Transparenzgrad des Menühintergrunds"
   - "Item font :"="'App-Schriftart:"
   - "Header font :"="Gruppenüberschrift:"
   - "Menu font :"="Menüschriftart:"
   - "Adjust global menu scaling"="Globale Menüskalierung anpassen"

   - "Round the corners of the menu and menu elements"="Ecken von Menü und Menüelementen abrunden"

   - "Offset the menu from the taskbar"="Menü von der Taskleiste versetzen"

   - "Only when centred start button"="Nur bei zentriertem Startbutton"

   - "Do not offset the menu horizontally to ensure it lines up with the start button"="Menü horizontal nicht versetzen, damit es mit der Start-Schaltfläche bündig ist"

The form of address is incorrect. In Windows, the user is not addressed with “you.”

   - "Would you like your menu to have a background image?"="Möchten Sie Ihrem Menü ein Hintergrundbild hinzufügen?"

 Microsoft frequently uses the word "Benutzerdefiniert"  instead of "Individuell" for the English term “custom” in its UIs.

   - "Use a custom menu background"="Benutzerdefinierten Menühintergrund verwenden"

From this perspective, the translation should perhaps be checked for consistency.

Best regards,

Thomas

I am now convinced that the translation was done with the help of AI. Today, AI can translate texts well if used correctly.

Automatically translating an entire language file is certainly not a good idea, as you can see from the result. For example, there are some texts that suddenly appear in single quotation marks <'> in the German version. This looks particularly strange in buttons.

They also forgot to widen the buttons for other languages.

Example:

Buttons

"Rename..."="Neu benennen …" => "Rename..."="Umbenennen..."

"Set icon..."="'Symbol festlegen...'" => "Set icon..."="Symbol festlegen..."

“Reset icon”="Zurücksetzen-Symbol"  => “Reset icon”="Symbol zurücksetzen"

The individual strings should be translated manually using AI, and prompts should be used to explain to the AI that a translation in the style of Windows 8/10/11 is desired, as is customary for the UI, menus, tooltips, or buttons in the corresponding language.

The English and German Windows translations are very different. And often require more space.

@sdRohan , that's funny. I discovered days ago that, unlike Fences, you can easily edit the language file. I wish that were possible for Fences, too.

I've already changed a few things for myself. For example, I removed all single quotation marks. But to do that systematically would be a lot of work for me. 

And honestly, my English isn't that good, and even as a native speaker, it's not that easy to translate the text into German in a way that's compliant with Windows. Which means it is also very time-consuming for me.

Oh, and what I found funny was that without reading your post, I searched for the original “de.lng” file and found it on the Github page.

And since you mention it, the Control Panel and Settings have the same text. That's why these tooltips can't be translated.

See the following post:

https://forums.stardock.com/539622/page/1/#3983576

I have fix the link.

https://forums.stardock.com/539622/page/1/#3983576

Since the Control Panel and Windows Settings have identical text, only one of them can be translated.

However, the text belongs to the Windows Settings.

Why is a bold font used for “Recent documents”? This appears to be an error.

“Recent documents” and “Pinned” should have the same font.

Quoting thomas-k,

reply 18

Here is another text that cannot be translated.
The string was added to the language file in version 2.49, but the German text is not being transferred.


; Added to 2.49
"- File Explorer"="– Datei-Explorer"
"Icon size :"="Schaltflächengröße :"
"Button width :"="Schaltflächenbreite :"
"Button height :"="Schaltflächenhöhe :"
"Colour"="Colour"

 

You say 'cant be' becuase you added them, the "English"="German" value pair to the de.lng file, closed the S11 UI, reopened, and it did not correct?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

The issue is  that MS used to translate something that they may no longer be doing (probably because translations are an incredible pain).  Its unknowable to us when they do this.  We can compensate with the app, make them work, but it takes logging and time. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

If we could forcast what MS will and wont do with Windows in future versions, we would be a fortune 500 company

When we find stuff they change, we do our best to fix it - that will be the case here. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

We would love to have you contribute here:

https://github.com/StardockCorp/Stardock-Software-Localization

If you have questions about the process, I would be happy to help. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager